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V. A. FERNHOUGH.

GLASS SIGN! No. 577,017; Patnted Feb. 16, 1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

' VINCENT A. FERNHOUGH, OFPl-IILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BYDIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO EDWARD H. PYLE, OF SAME PLACE.

GLASS SIGN.

V SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 577,017, datedFebruary 16, 1897.

Application filed December 17, 1895. Serial No. 572,412. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LVINCENT A. FEENHOUGH, a subject of the Queen of GreatBritain, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Glass Signsor Tablets, which improvement is fully set forth in the followingspecification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of an improvement in glass signs or tabletsembodying the format-ion of the letters or design, primarily, of

water enamel or color and the conversion of the same into oil, paint, orcolor, thus producing a bright, attractive, sharply-outlined, durable,and comparatively inexpensive article.

Figure 1 represents a View of the back of a sign in primary conditionembodying my invention. Figs. 2, 3, and 4. represent successiveoperations of producing the sign. Fig. 5 representsa face viewof thesigrnproduped.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

Referring to the drawings, in carryingout my invention I apply to theback of a piece of glass A a coating Blot" water enamellor color. Ithenplace onsaid coating or coloring the-pattern of the design to be formed,the same in the present case being the word sign in astenci lftheletters of which are solid, so that the coating Bflis covered to/theextent of said letters, while the spaces between the letters leave thecorresponding portion of the coating uncovered. (Illustrated by thehorizontal stripes in Fig. 2T)" "Ln ow remoye the said nncoveredmpprtion.ofi;the coatingbymeans ofasandblast, a ms-chinebrush, or other suitableappliance, which in the present case will leave the shaped letters ofthe word sign composed of the undisturbed enamel or color, the remainderof the coating having been removed, as will be seen in Fig. 3. Thepattern is then withdrawn.

A fla nsgr il l-nairtis non pp Over thesletters, and the backbttheglass.between the letters asshown in 4,. wherebythe enamel .or.color of theletters, owing to their nature,,absorb some ,of the oil of the paint,and isthus converted into an oil, composition which produces all of theadvantages of oil: painted designs without the expense thereof, theletters being a1soprntectedhythelm ing said letters andthe backing asthegrgund being visible-in front, as'shown in Fig. do

It is to be noticed that I can cut or outline water-color letters ordesigns with sharpness and rapidity, which is not the case with oilcolorletters or designs, and that when a letter or design is made it"requiresno special skill to form a sign or tablet therefrom in accordance withmy improvement.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by-Letters Patent, is-

1. A sign consisting of a transparent plate having letters or designs onthe back thereof, the same being formed of Water-color, and backing ofoil-paint 011 the spaces between said letters or designs, and on saidletters or designs, the oil of said paint having been absorbed by thewater-color, substantially as described.

2. The method of making a sign, consisting in coating a transparentplate with a color material, adapted to absorb oil, placing a patternover said material, removingtheexposed portion.ois iclmatnienbtedisplacing .thepattern, and.11QlL9ll11gMith oil-painttheshapedmaterial that 'remainson the plate and the uncovered part ofsaid plate, thus producing the ground, and having some of the oil of thepaint absorbed by the shaped color material, as set forth.

VINCENT A. FERNHOUGH. Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDEESHEIM, WM. 0. WIEnEnsHEIM.

